------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng VERSION : 3.1.0 SUMMARY : new feature release DATE : Mar 22, 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: This is the first stable release of syslog-ng Open Source Edition 3.1. syslog-ng 3.1 is the first so called "feature release" of syslog-ng, as such its support period ends when either the next feature (named 3.2) or the next stable (named 4.0) version is published. Please note that this announcement contains features that were already published in one of the earlier BETA releases. If you are upgrading from 3.1beta2, please see the list of changes relative to that version at the end of the "CHANGES" block below. CHANGES SINCE v3.0: New features: * Support for patterndb v2 and v3 format, along with a bunch of new parsers: ANYSTRING, IPv6, IPvANY and FLOAT. * Added a new "pdbtool" utility to manage patterndb files: convert them from v1 or v2 format, merge mulitple patterndb files into one and look up matching patterns given a specific message. * Support for message tags: tags can be assigned to log messages as they enter syslog-ng: either by the source driver or via patterndb. Later it these tags can be used for efficient filtering. * Added support for rewriting structured data. * Macros and name-value pairs got a little tighter integration, in filters where syslog-ng 3.0 was limited to only use name-value pairs, with 3.1 you can also use macros. * Enhanced dynamic name-value performance by a factor of three. * Some parsers got additional features: NUMBER is now able to parse hexadecimal numbers, ESTRING is now able to search for multiple characters as the end of the string. * Added non-standard and non-portable facility codes (range 10-15), decouple syslog-ng facility name information from the system used to compile syslog-ng on. * Added pcre support in the binary packages of syslog-ng. An updated administrator's guide is available on the BalaBit documentation page at: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/ CHANGES SINCE v3.1beta2: Bugfixes: * Fixed Solaris 10 SMF script to properly handle svcadm refresh requests. * Fixed a possible segmentation fault for unix-dgram/unix-stream destinations on some (non-Linux) platforms. * Fixed processing empty log entries when using the syslog() protocol. * Fixed processing partially received syslog messages. Other changes: * It is now possible to add comments before the @version header in the configuration file. * Decrease the frequency of gettimeofday() calls during syslog-ng operation, as gettimeofday() is expensive to call on some platforms. * The SQL destination will only attempt to INSERT a given log message 3 times, and after that it gives up, instead of trying indefinitely. * Tru64 portability fixes. * The functional test program was improved to check the new RFC5424 syslog protocol. DOWNLOAD: You can download the source or binary packages from: http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/... The documentation of the syslog-ng Open Source Edition is available in The syslog-ng Open Source Edition Administrator's Guide at http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/